Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rousseau painted it when his memory gave him a scene that some sentence or story had buried in his mind a long time before, perhaps in his childhood; for the picture of the night, the desert, the beast and the sleeping woman is achieved in accents as intense and dim as the words of a child in a fever. It may be that the word "Bohemian" had taken on, when he first heard it, some quality not its own, a jangling note that suggested the picture, for why the painted traveler, asleep under the moon with her mandolin should...
...Didactic dim-wits will argue: College students ought to know better, they ought to be able to use their heads, to reason. But there are times when a student is not a student. One of these times is when he is part of a mob. Another of these times is when he has just had certain emotions mauled, teased, tampered with by provocative meddlers, who know not what they...
...representative the strange narrative of the Mosquito Kings, a story worthy of the imagination of Dean Swift. The Mosquito Coast is a small jungle district of Guatemala in Central America inhabited by some 8000 Indians and famous for its abundance of insect life. Its history runs back to the dim ages of Maya supremacy in Yucatan to the days when the Tolters ruled Mexico with their thousands of plumed warriors...
...sleeves, and write a song that would surge above the glamor of "The Sidewalks of New York." But down on the lower East Side the old grind organs still throb and Tammany Hall politicians light cigars, lean back in squeaky chairs, smile at one another, say: "He cannot dim...
Commencement Day is still a gala occasion to a number of cap-and-gowned young men and their relatives and admirers, who are the actors in the colorful drama enacted under the Japanese lanterns in the dim aisles of the Yard. But two hundred years ago, Commencement Day was the occasion of a general jollification among the populace of Massachusetts as a whole. Drawn not by the main, or academic tent, whose attractions at this time consisted chiefly of orations in Latin, Hebrew, and Greek, but by the side-shows clustering around the big top, the countryfolk and townspeople flocked...